IronClaw

What IronClaw Does

IronClaw is an open-source AI agent platform that enables you to automate busywork across your entire tech stack while keeping your credentials secure. Built by Near Foundation, it provides a defense-in-depth security architecture where your API keys, tokens, and passwords never touch the AI model — they live in an encrypted vault and are injected only at the host boundary for pre-approved endpoints.

Who It's For & Problems It Solves

IronClaw is designed for developers, teams, and organizations who want the productivity benefits of autonomous AI agents without the security risks. It directly addresses the critical vulnerabilities in OpenClaw and similar agent frameworks — prompt injection attacks that can dump secrets, malicious skills that exfiltrate credentials, and exposed instances vulnerable to exploitation. If you need to give an AI agent access to Gmail, Slack, GitHub, databases, or any other authenticated services, IronClaw provides the security layer that makes it safe.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Encrypted Vault: Credentials are encrypted at rest and never visible to the AI model; injected only for allowlisted endpoints
• Sandboxed Tools: Every skill runs in its own WebAssembly container with capability-based permissions and strict resource limits
• Trusted Execution Environments: Runs inside encrypted enclaves on NEAR AI Cloud where not even the provider can see your data
• Built in Rust: Memory-safe by design with no garbage collector, buffer overflows, or use-after-free vulnerabilities
• Network Allowlisting: Tools can only reach pre-approved endpoints; no silent data exfiltration
• Real-time Leak Detection: All outbound traffic is scanned automatically; anything resembling a secret is blocked
• Model-Agnostic: Compatible with Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Mistral, Ollama, and more

Typical Workflows & Use Cases

IronClaw handles communication triage (inbox prioritization, email summarization, draft replies), productivity automation (daily briefings, meeting prep, task capture), monitoring (keyword alerts, deployment health checks, release tracking), and developer workflows (invoice parsing, KPI reporting, repository monitoring). Common automations include triaging Gmail every morning, sending Slack/Telegram updates, watching Hacker News or Twitter for product mentions, and parsing invoices into spreadsheets.

Integrations

Works with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, GitHub, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Signal, and any service with an API. IronClaw can build new connectors on the fly when you need them, and supports MCP Servers for extended capabilities.

What Makes It Different

Unlike OpenClaw and other agent frameworks, IronClaw makes security architectural rather than advisory. Where OpenClaw tells the LLM "please don't leak secrets," IronClaw makes credential exfiltration cryptographically impossible through hardware-enforced enclaves, compile-time memory safety, and runtime sandboxing. You get one-click deployment to NEAR AI Cloud with no infrastructure setup, or you can run it locally. It's the security layer that makes autonomous agents production-ready.